The hormone leptin plays an important role in appetite control, metabolism and weight loss. It is your body's natural weight control mechanism. The body doesn't always listen to the leptin message and leptin resistance occurs. The leptin signal isn't being heard, so it cannot stimulate your metabolism or suppress your appetite.
==Causes==
The typical modern lifestyle contributes to leptin resistance; fast food, little or no exercise, too much stress and not enough sleep.
== Symptoms ==
Leptin resistance can make losing weight very difficult if not impossible.
== Home remedies ==
*Exercise: A key factor for positive long-term health outcomes is to get moving and keep moving. A lack of physical activity increases the likelihood of leptin resistance as cortisol levels rise. Exercise helps to mitigate the effects cortisol has on the body and decrease resistance to leptin. This is why over time appetites decrease with routine moderate physical activity.